Tuesday,
February 12, 2002
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yard art sounds off
"Cheese - milk's leap toward
immortality."
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mission I am up a little earlier than usual today. This doesn't mean that I actually get to work a lot earlier, though. It just means that I move a littler more slowly. At work, I make a list of the things I have to handle. I start doing them in order. Mom is trying to look something up on the WEB and not finding it. I go there for lunch. They have made all of the following: salad, potatoes with cheese, nachos, green bean casserole and pork chops cooked on the grill outside. I eat some of everything and, all in all, too much. Cheese and cheese and creamy salad dressing. I've munched a few chips at work, too. My diet is awful. And tonight we are going to a wine dinner. I am not surprised I weigh 175. I'm surprised I'm not 180 once again.
Mom's problem with the computer is just finding stuff on the miniature club WEB site. Things are not always obvious. I help her look it over. I think she'd like to go to this meeting but thinks it will cost too much money.
Back at work, I attend two less than satisfying meetings. I have a conversation with a colleague about a least favorite subject. I tried to distract him by proposing a problem involving the Lego pieces on my desk...the parts from two small Lego Easter ducks. He fell right into that.
The wine dinner is at Jeffrey's in the special events house (Josephine's House) next door to the restaurant. I think this is the first time I've been here. It is a little tight. But we have adequate room at the table and we four (SuRu and Gayle are along) are joined by one of Jeffrey's owners, Ron Weiss, and Tracy who works for the distributor of the Burgundies we are having. And beautiful Burgundies they are. We also had two different champagnes, one with dessert and one with the appetizers. French wines. Jeffrey's food. Can't go wrong. The highlight for me was the Lamb T-Bone with Pea Pepper Custard, Swiss Chard and Huckleberry Thyme Sauce with Bonnes-Marres Grand Cru Domaine Fougeray de Beauclair, 1999. What a wonderful dish. And wine. The dessert (Apple Crisp tart with Strawberry Champagne Sorbet and Strawberry Mint Sauce) was also great. And I'm not a dessert person. The Red Snapper and the French Hen Ravioli were not bad but there have to be highlights, you know.
More and more I ponder the future of the journal. I keep writing, I keep ftp-ing, but I don't link it to anything else. How silly is that? Well, of course, it's an easy way to 'back up' my personal journal and to use it to go find out when I was doing what. I'd even thought of starting one of those 'one year ago today' features. But it's too depressing. It reveals how 'stuck' my life is. Of course, it's a happy life (albeit with little accomplishment) so maybe that's not a bad thing.
I have been considering buying some or all of the following: a new desktop, a new laptop (it would be the first non-work one I'd had in a while), a wireless access point and a PCMCIA wireless card, a specialized photo printer that prints directly from memory cards. I have avoided buying a WAP because I would be putting the PCMCIA on a company laptop. I have avoided buying a new computer or laptop waiting for more computers to have USB 2.0 ports and waiting for more laptops to come with 811.b wireless ports built in and waiting for prices to come down or at least 'features for the price' to improve. I don't need the printer either, of course. So, I have managed to buy nothing but I have done a lot of on-line shopping and reading. If I were retired, I think I'd want to get more of this stuff because I'd have more time to do stuff with it. I have projects piled up on desk and in my head. Scanning this. Transferring travel logs and photographs of travel to the computer. Building up picture galleries of neighborhoods. I could use more gadgets if I had more time to spend on this stuff. But, I don't. I have to go to work and make presentations, read specs, go to meetings, give presentations and hope I'm doing some good but, in any case, bringing home a bit more money to buy toys for my retirement. As it is, my old SCSI scanner, this WIN98 machine, Dreamweaver and Fireworks provide about all the toys that I can make use of at the moment.
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175
JUST
TYPING